Later, he joined the Music College at Annamalai University in Chidambaram where he learnt vocal music under stalwarts like Sangeetha Kalanidhi T S Sabesa Iyer and Sangeetha Kalanidhi Tanjore Ponniah Pillai, descendant of the famous Tanjore Quartet.
From 1937 to 1946, he served as the lecturer at the Annamalai University, his alma mater, and assisted in publishing the Tamil kritis of Gopalakrishna Bharathi, Neelakanta Sivan and Arunachala Kavi.
[1][4][5] He participated in several international conferences and was a member of the Music and Cultural Delegations to the erstwhile USSR and East European countries in 1954.
In 1970, he was invited by Yehudi Menuhin to attend the Bath International Music Festival and perform at London, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge, and Birmingham.
[2] Among his disciples, notable ones include Rugmini Gopalakrishnan,[11][12] Kalyani Sharma,[1] Saraswati Rajagopalan,[13] Trivandrum Venkataraman,[14] Aswathi Thirunal Rama Varma,[15] Geetha Raja,[3] Nirmala Parthasarathy,[16] Jayashree Aravind.